Cole Boy Name

The name Cole is of Old English origin, and means black.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Cole has been given to baby boys in recent years.
The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.
The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Cole

Use of the Name Cole for Boys During the Last ...

125 Years

50 Years

25 Years

10 Years

5 Years

2 Years

1 Year

74,192

74,073

71,659

51,613

29,125

11,452

5,571

The table below indicates the number of times the name Cole has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Cole first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1886, which is the first year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Cole

Used as a Boy Name

Used as a Girl Name

Year

Rank

Count

Rank

Count

1886

860

6

1887

1888

1889

1890

1891

1892

1893

1894

1895

1896

1897

1898

1899

1900

1901

1902

1903

1904

1905

1906

1907

1908

1909

1910

1911

1912

1913

1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

1919

1920

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926

1927

1928

1929

1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

1936

1937

1938

1939

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

1946

1947

1948

1949

1950

1951

996

50

1952

1953

1954

932

63

1955

949

62

1956

947

62

1957

888

73

1958

880

73

1959

919

69

1960

898

71

1961

777

98

1962

834

83

1963

948

63

1964

955

64

1965

911

66

1966

1967

993

53

1968

867

69

1969

847

82

1970

816

98

1971

814

98

1972

687

136

1973

627

158

1974

594

180

1975

664

155

1976

695

142

1977

676

156

1978

693

146

1979

681

157

1980

524

267

1981

483

297

1982

265

806

1983

209

1,112

1984

201

1,163

1985

204

1,185

1986

221

1,065

1987

233

1,001

1988

259

902

1989

270

910

1990

248

1,096

1991

162

1,973

1992

143

2,309

1993

130

2,658

1994

111

3,302

1995

118

3,146

1996

106

3,739

1997

72

5,157

1998

77

5,140

1999

75

5,306

2000

71

5,917

2001

74

5,730

2002

69

6,026

2003

69

5,881

2004

75

5,571

Totals:

74,192

0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Cole as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Cole appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 52 times during the last 125 years.